{"product_id":"identifying-future-proof-science-2","title":"Identifying Future-Proof Science","description":"Is science getting at the truth? \n\nThe sceptics—those who spread doubt about science—often employ a simple argument: scientists were 'sure' in the past, and then they ended up being wrong. Through a combination of historical investigation and philosophical-sociological analysis, Identifying Future-Proof Science defends science against this potentially dangerous scepticism. Indeed, we can confidently identify many scientific claims that are future-proof: they will last forever, so long as science continues. How do we identify future-proof claims? This appears to be a new question for science scholars, and not an unimportant one. It is argued that the best way to identify future-proof science is to avoid any attempt to analyse the relevant first-order scientific evidence, instead focusing purely on second-order evidence. Specifically, a scientific claim is future-proof when the relevant scientific community is large, international, and diverse, and at least 95 per cent of that community would describe the claim as a 'scientific fact'. In the entire history of science, no claim meeting these criteria has ever been overturned, despite enormous opportunity.","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54260857635160,"sku":"9780198966227","price":31.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780198966227.jpg?v=1779264931","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/identifying-future-proof-science-2","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}